Num. Contratto:
12380
Coordinatore:
FONDAZIONE ISI (Italia)
Responsabile ENEA:
BOLOGNA SANDRO - (CASACCIA)
Ruolo ENEA:
PARTNER
Sito Web:
Sito WEB non disponibile
Programma Quadro:
Sesto Programma Quadro UE (2002-2006)
Programma UE:
NEST (2002-2006) - Aree emergenti della scienza e della tecnologia
Area Tematica:
Tipo Progetto:
CA - Azione di coordinamento
Descrizione:
The objective of GIACS is to coordinate activities that express, explain, predict and control the complex collective objects arising at a certain space-time scale as emerging from the simpler interactions of their components at a finer scale. This is a sor t of extension of the "atomic-molecular" stochastic thinking and computational methods to social, biological, cognitive and technological systems. The integration it implies is not a juxtaposition of various expertises but rather an intimate fusion of knowledge. This involves a coordinated shift in the very objectives, scope and ethos of the affected disciplines. Complexity is not offering just a way of answering questions from one science using concepts from another: it is introducing a new language which allows the formulation of novel questions or rather a new grammar which allows novel interrogative forms. Main Actions: 1) European Complexity Society and Conference including all Complexity application areas 2) Instruments for the collective steering of the CA. These instruments will support also the self-discovery, self-organization of the community that practices and applies complexity to various fields. 3) Instruments to discover, connect and transfer information / data to communities of potential user s and consumers of complexity methods, ideas and results 4) Instruments to find, catalogue, rank and present in a coherent way to researchers and students of complexity relevant data and knowledge produced originally within other disciplines 5) Instruments to initiate and carry out interdisciplinary research transferring and applying complexity. In the past, as technology was acting on hardware, applied science was mainly experimental science applied to real life situations. Today,when technology is acting on abstract items, applied science consists often of formal (theoretical) operations applied to real life knowledge items and structures. One may speak therefore of "Theoretical Applied Science"
Attività svolta da ENEA:
ENEA role in the Coordinated Action GIACS is to bridge the scientific community of Complexity Science and operators and stakeholders in the field of Critical Infrastructures. New insights resulting from the observation of biological, technological and social systems have allowed to understand mechanisms at the origin of the growth and of the evolution of complex (infra-)structures and, in particular, the origin of their interdependent behaviour.
The action of ENEA in GIACS is to bring these ideas (and the consequent analysis methods and tools) on the forefront of the technological research made by infrastructure’s owners, with the aim of realizing new instruments for the analysis and the control of national critical infrastructures.
The activities which ENEA performs in GIACS are mostly related to the selection of relevant outcomes of EU-funded projects and the contact with major national Critical Infrastructure stakeholders to allow their deployment in a technological context.
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